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Second week of IPICS04 has been done too. Monday (26th of July): Bart Preneel (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium) was giving “An introduction to cryptology, Part II” in 5 units. Main topics were MAC, PKI and GSM-security. Herbert Leitold (Secure Information Technology Center, Austria) was talking about ‘Electronic voting in Europe’ and it’s main problems. Afterswards […]

Because I’m having internet-access while sitting at IPICS04@TUG I will give a short overview over the last week. Tuesday (20th of July): Ahmed Patel from Ireland was talking about ‘Investigative Computing’. Main topics were comparison of existing models (Interpol, Casey, DRWS,…) and some main parts of computer forensic. Günther Pernul from University of Regensburg took […]

178 slides, 5 units in >7 hours (including pauses) – first day of IPICS04 has taken place. Prof. Karl C. Posch gave us an ‘Introduction to Information and Communication Security and Secure Embedded Systems’. Steven Furnell of University of Plymouth (UK) was talking about cyber crime. 35 participants from all over the world are here […]

Yes! I am one of the 5 students at TU Graz who can take part in IPICS04 – Intensive Program on Information and Communication Security: Secure Embedded Systems – in July 2004. Absolutely great!

Till yesterday (18th of october) I had to finish my essay on stream ciphers for IPICS04. It is available online (PDF, 141kb) . It has been the first time I was using BibTex “productive”. Whereas I was using Vim for editing literature.bib in the beginning I took a short look at gBibg (thanks for the […]

My Kanotix/Knoppix-installation on my Sony-Laptop sucked. Hotplugging was quite crappy and using WLAN-card with WEP at IPICS04 did not work. So it was time for testing the Debian/Sarge-DVD I got by Fred Andresen from Linux-New-Media. Installation of Debian/Sarge was quite comfortable. No (obvious) bugs in the installer, no loss of data and a fast way […]